Locomotive.



1. L. CANTLON & D; HURLEY.

LOCOMOTIVE.

APPLICATION FILED DEC. II. I9I4. LIEKMS. Patented Oct. 26, 1915.

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Application filed'December 11, 1914. Serial No. 876,735.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that we,- JAMES L. CANTLON and DANIAL HURLEY, citizens ofthe United States of America, residing at I-Iillyard, in the county ofSpokane and State of Washington, have invented certain new and use fulImprovements in Locomotives, of which the following is a specification.

This invention pertains to locomotives and has for its object to providea removable hub-liner to take the place of babbitt commonly run onto theface of the driver boxes to serve as a bearing between the driver boxesand the wheels of the locomotive.

Under the method of using the babbitt as above mentioned itis necessaryto remove the driver boxes in order to re-line them by running them withbabbitt. The weight of the engine is upon the driver boxes and thismakes it necessary to remove the weight of the engine in order to get atand disconnect the driver boxes. Under our improved construction metalplates are attached to the driver boxes in such a manner that they maybe driven out when worn and replaced by new ones without the necessityof disturbing the assembled condition of the locomotive or the positionof the driver boxes.

The detail construction and arrangement of parts will be hereinafterparticularly described and illustrated in the accompanying drawings, inwhich,

Figure 1, is a broken away side elevation of a locomotive showing theimproved con struction, Fig. 2, is a sectional View taken on the line2.2 of Fig. 1, Fig. 3, isa sectional view of the axle and a front viewof the driver box with the improved plate attached thereto, Fig. 4:, isa plan view of a driver box with the improved plate attached thereto,Fig. 5, is an enlarged vertical sectional view taken on the line 55 ofFig. 3, Fig. 6, is a transverse sectional view taken on the line 66 ofFig. 3, Fig. 7 is a transverse sectional view taken on the line 77 ofFig. 3, and Fig. 8, is a broken-away front view of a driver box asprepared for the attachment of the improved plate. 7

In a detail description of the parts, the

driver boxes 10 engage the axles 11 near the wheels 12. The hub-linerplates 13 are attached to the vertical walls of the driver boxes 10adjacent to the hubs 14: of the wheels 12. The manner in which we preferto attach the hub-liner plates 13 to the driver boxes 10 is bydove-tailing them together as shown in Fig. 6, the vertical face of thedriver boxes 10 being hollowed out as at 15 (Fig. 8) and the platesbeing provided with corresponding projections 16 adapted to engage andto fit the hollowed out portions 15. The plates 13 are held rigid intheir position on the driver boxes 1.0 by means of set screws 17 turnedinto threaded bores 18 in the upper portions of the boxes 10. The heads19 of the screws 17 extend over the tops 13 of the plates 13 and arecountersunk as at 18 into the top of the boxes 10. Extending downwardlyfrom and connected with the hollowed out portions 15 of the driver boxes10 (Fig. 8) are openings 20 through which an instrument may be insertedto reach the plates 13 to drive them upwardly when it is desired toremove the plates 13. In order to remove the plates 13 it is onlynecessary to turn out the set screws 17 and then drive the plates 13upwardly as stated above.

As shown in Fig. 1 it will be seen that as locomotives are constructed,the equalizing beams 21 and engine frames 22 are so intimately connectedwith the driver boxes 10, that as the driver boxes 10 are now lined, itis necessary to disassemble the locomotive to re-line, but under ourimproved construction the set screws 17 are removed and the plates 13driven out upwardly along the side of the equalizing beams 21, and newplates 13 inserted downwardly in their stead, occasioning no removing ofany other part of the locomotive. These hub-liners may be used ontrailers and engine truck boxes.

What is claimed is,

1. In a locomotive, a removable hub-liner construction comprising adriver-box, a vertical wall on the driver box next to the hub of thelocomotive, vertical grooves in said wall, a plate adapted to engage theaxle of the locomotive and the said wall of the driver-box, tongues onsaid plate adapted to engage the grooves in said wall, means for holdingsaid plate rigidly in relation to said driver-box wall, such meanscomprising set screws counter-sunk in a vertical position in the topwall of the driver-box with their heads overlapping said plate, andmeans whereby said plate may be removed from said wall.

2. In a locomotive, a removable hub-liner construction comprising adriver-box, grooves in the wall of the same, a plate having tonguesadapted to engage the grooves in the wall of said driver-box, means forholding said plate in rigid relation with said driver-box, such meanscomprising set screws countersunk in a vertical position in the-top wallof the driver-box with their heads overlapping said' plate, and meanswhereby said plate may be driven loose from its connection with saiddriver-box, such means comprising openings in the lower portion of thevertical wall of the driverbox extending ,u pwardly to the lower endCopies of this patent may be obtained for of said plate whereby aninstrument may be inserted to force said plate upwardly out of saidgrooves after said set screws have been 15 removed.

In testimony whereof we aflix our signatures in presence of twowitnesses.

JAMES L. CANTLON. DANIAL HURLEY.

Witnesses:

H. M. WILEY, L. L. WESTFALL.

five cents each, by addressing the Commissioner of Patents. Washington,D. C.

